Research Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Research Scientist roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Research Scientist according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 33%
Phone interview: 22%
Background check: 11%
Drug test: 11%
One on one interview: 11%
Group panel interview: 11%
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The position was related to data science. There were questions related to basic data science concepts such as support vector machine, gradient descent, decision trees. There was also a programming question.
I had a zoom call with the hiring manager. I was asked technical questions during the interview, such as "How do you compute the conditional median of a set of data points?"
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If u ~ Uniform(0, 1), what is the distribution of -log(u)? Solution: Expontial(1).
Five interviews, all had behavioral components, three coding questions, one system design question. The behavioral questions were of the form "Tell me about a time when..." and were meant to reflect Amazon's Leadership Principles.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you were unhappy with the status quo
Pretty fast and well-organized interview process. Scheduling was easy, communication of different interview expectations was clear, and feedback came quickly after each stage, which made the overall experience quite smooth.